AIL Postcard Edition Nr. 3 – Algorithmic Vertigo

Speculative storytelling becomes a tool for remoulding the present by imagining possible futures. We address tensions between control and freedom in a world of pervasive digital mediation.

We see the fatigue.

We acknowledge that the relationship between reality and the imagined future is shifting.

We prompt ourselves towards new ways of experiencing (digital) existence, exploring reconfigurations of self and body.

Navigating vertigo.

AIL is presenting the third postcard edition, installed in the former cashier hall of Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse, in the center of Café Exchange.

This postcard series emerges from the exhibition Algorithmic Vertigo (2025), which was developed from the seminar Techniques of Presentation at the department of ­Digital Arts. The student exhibition was created for FOTO WIEN 2025 in cooperation with the AIL and the theme of the exhibition was based on the idea of ­Expanded Photography and FOTO WIEN’s yearly topic Dynamic Futures. The exhibited works explored new configurations of reality, the body, and its position within the topographies of the post-digital.

Artists:

Daki Rolex, Element Lee, Flynn by Malpractice, Ulrike Fritzsche, Hartwin Haselbauer & Tina Grüll, Anahi Juárez, Zita Kayser, Klára Klimas, Koschka & Ivy Keye, Rita Kulyk, Bojan Markovic, Rage, Ivan Sai, Matthias Sanoll & Lea Gander